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I dont know of this has been posted and Im not searching before I do,so forget about it.Absolute Poker has confirmed that its security was breached by someone with inside knowledge of its system that enabled him to share opponents' holecard information with the eventual winner of a $1,000 buy-in tournament in September, and possibly other games. The site claims to have sealed the security breach.The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), which is commissioned by several leading online sites as a regulator, hired Gaming Associates, a company that provides accreditation and security services to casinos, to audit Absolute Poker. It will check for additional breaches and identify other possible security issues. Absolute Poker has agreed to provide Card Player with a final copy of the Gaming Associates report. A deadline for the final report has yet to be established.Alan Pedley, a principal consultant for Gaming Associates who is directly involved in the Absolute Poker audit, said that Gaming Associates is completely independent of both the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and Absolute Poker, and has never audited Absolute Poker before.Absolute Poker has said that once the audit is complete, every player who was affected by the cheaters would have theirmoney returned, with interest.Here's the latest statement from Absolute Poker:Absolute Poker has identified an internal security breach that compromised our systems for a limited period of time. The cause of the breach has been determined and completely resolved. In addition, all necessary resources, both internal and external, have been engaged to ensure this does not happen again. Our investigation is not fully concluded, and we wish to thank the extended poker community for any and all assistance related to the matter.Game integrity has always and continues to be of the utmost importance at Absolute Poker. The Management of Absolute Poker is appalled by these findings, and is committed to our players and to the integrity of our site and the online poker industry.All players affected by the security breach will be identified during the audit process that has been initiated and all funds, including interest, will be returned. Absolute Poker would like to apologize for the recent events and is committed to diligently working with outside security firms, auditing firms, the extended poker community and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission to ensure the situation is entirely resolved.A comprehensive statement will be forthcoming shortly providing more details of the situation.The SituationThe investigation stems from a request made by professional poker player Marco Johnson, who plays under the screen name "CrazyMarco." Immediately after the $1,000 buy-in tournament, which took place on Sept. 12, he requested the hand history for the final table from Absolute Poker after a player named POTRIPPER called his all-in bluff with a busted 9-high flush draw with just 10 high.Instead of the hands for the final table, Absolute Poker sent Johnson a spreadsheet containing a large amount of information about the first 94 hands of the tournament.Card Player obtained a copy of this hand-history spreadsheet from Nat Arem, the first member of the poker community to analyze the spreadsheet in depth and share his findings with a number of prominent poker forums. The document is a little more than 9 megabytes in size (very large for a spreadsheet) and contains 65,536 lines of information.The hand history shows a pattern of unorthodox poker play, wherein POTRIPPER maximizes his profits and minimizes his losses perfectly in each hand. The entire hand history is available in a video format on YouTube.Unorthodox play, however, wasn't the only information that was documented in the hand-history spreadsheet. It also included e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and user ID numbers of some players and observers. An observer with a very low user ID number, 363 (an ID number likely created very early in Absolute Poker's history), was watching POTRIPPER's table for all but the first two hands of the tournament and was never documented as having left.Questions arose when the IP addresses of that user and one other observer were scrutinized. As stated, user 363, with a Costa Rican IP address, watched POTRIPPER's table throughout the tournament. Then, an observer using a different Absolute Poker account, but from the exact same IP address (which, in this case, means using the same Internet connection as user 363, likely from the same computer or household), opened up a different table in the same tournament. That observer's registered e-mail address was scott@riveraltd.com. Riveraltd.com is a domain that is registered to Absolute Entertainment in San Jose, Costa Rica.The person behind the e-mail address may be Scott Tom, whom Absolute Poker confirmed as being a former employee.Absolute Poker, in its statement, says Tom "has not been involved with Absolute Poker for over a year, and to the best of our knowledge, information, and belief, has not had access to any of Absolute Poker's systems, databases, or information."Even if it wasn't Tom, the e-mail address, the IP address from where it originated, and the odd play of POTRIPPER made it clear that something was wrong at Absolute

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